Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), commonly known by his initials RFK, was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the United States junior senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. Kennedy was a member of the Democratic Party, and is seen as an icon of modern American liberalism.
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless I shall destroy him.
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
Ultimately America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
It is not enough to understand or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.